CSPA: Opportunities

Opportunities at CSPA

Honours

Honours year projects will soon appear here.

Postgraduate

Available PhD topics include:

GR
- Evolution of Brill waves in axisymmetric spacetimes (Leo Brewin)
- Non-vacuum spacetimes via a smooth lattice method (Leo Brewin)
The Sun
- Computational HelioSeismic Holography (Alina Donea)
- Solar Flares (Alina Donea)
- Coronal Seismology (Paul Cally)
- Local Helioseismology (Paul Cally)
- Tachocline Dynamics (Paul Cally)
- MHD wave theory (Paul Cally)
Stellar Abundances
- Chemical Evolution in Globular Clusters (John Lattanzio)
- Fluorine production in the Universe (John Lattanzio)
- Abundance anomalies in pre-solar grains (John Lattanzio)
- Detailed abundance analysis of planetary nebulae (John Lattanzio)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
- Turbulence modelling of accretion flows and jets using the SPH alpha model (Joe Monaghan)
- The application of alpha turbulence ideas to the dynamics of star clusters (Joe Monaghan)
- Studies of the dynamics of dusty gas disks embedded in a gas cloud - Kelvin-Helmhotls instabilities, mixing and the formation of planets and orbit circularization (Joe Monaghan)

Jobs

There are no jobs available in CSPA at present.

Post-doctoral Fellowships

Post-Doctoral Fellowships at CSPA are available for 2006.
These are funded through the Australian Research Council (www.arc.gov.au) via their Discovery Grant and Fellowship programs. Anyone interested in pursuing one of these should contact the appropriate staff member at CSPA and plan to develop a research proposal in plenty of time for the deadline for applications (approx Feb 2006). For more info please see http://www.arc.gov.au/info_users/researcher_fellowships.htm.

Work Experience

We are always keen to let students experience life as a research astronomer working in the Centre. If you are interested in doing a work-experience placement at CSPA, please print out and fill in this Work experience Application Form and return it to us, along with a covering letter, and a letter from your school. (The form is in pdf format so you will need Adobe Reader or a similar program to read it - you can download Adobe Reader here. As placements will depend on the availability of staff and resources in the department, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to offer you a place. We will endeavour to let you know as soon as possible whether your application is successful.

Reports and presentations by work-experience students

Solar Physics and Stars by Alice Szeto (Glen Waverley Secondary College)

Mars by Michael Pang (Glen Waverley Secondary College)

[pretty pictures (link to the CSPA homepage)]

Last updated 5 Feb 2007
by WebAdmin AF